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[Jonathan Lighter]

Yeah, whenever I read the pop-pedantic "mic," I still think "Mick," which
must make me some kind of bigot.

JL

On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 8:33 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:

> Yeah, I've run into that.  I just can't read"mic" with a "long" (i.e.
> diphthongized great-vowel-shifted) "i".  But we're a dying breed, Dubya(s).
>
> > On Aug 29, 2016, at 11:53 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 11:23 PM, W Brewer <brewerwa at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> mike
> >
> >
> > That spelling reveals your age, Dubya. 😉
> >
> >
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